“What matters?” Zoe likes to ask, her arms held up in the universal child-asking-a-question gesture. She thinks it means “what’s the difference?” To me, she sounds just like Yenta in Fiddler on the Roof whenever she says it, most often [...]
“What matters?” Zoe likes to ask, her arms held up in the universal child-asking-a-question gesture. She thinks it means “what’s the difference?” To me, she sounds just like Yenta in Fiddler on the Roof whenever she says it, most often [...]
Or at least the most efficient, since I could have easily eaten the entire batch in one sitting. My standard refrain about living in a small New England city is “everything is great, except for the bagels.” Now I can [...]
I spent my first year of graduate school in Jerusalem. Because this was some twenty years ago, communication with friends and family in the States was primarily by mail, which often took two or three weeks to arrive at its [...]
Did you ever wonder why, if we aren’t allowed to eat products made with wheat on Passover, that matzoh is totally kosher (so to speak?) I must admit that this question puzzled me until my mid-20′s, when I spent a [...]
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Teaching the Four Questions to young children
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The New American Haggadah - and the winners are....
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Why I love the New American Haggadah (and it's not just because I got to have a martini with Nathan Englander.)
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